UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, Va. – The University of Richmond Spiders baseball team completed a three-game, Atlantic 10 sweep of the Massachusetts Minutemen with an 8-5 victory at Pitt Field on Saturday afternoon.

With the win, Richmond improves to 11-12-1 on the season overall and to 4-2 in A-10 play. With the loss, Massachusetts falls to 3-16 on the year and to 2-4 in league action.

Senior C Cory Moheit and junior OF Eric Flanagan led the way offensively for the Spiders on Saturday, with Moheit clubbing a two-run double and Flanagan hitting a two-run home run.

On the mound, junior LHP Dylan Stoops had a solid start, pitching 6.1 innings, allowing three runs. Out of the bullpen, junior RHP Ray Harron (2-0) earned the win with his 1.2 innings of work, while sophomore RHP Dan Martinson recorded his second save of the season, working a scoreless ninth inning.

After a RBI double from Kraeger in the first inning gave Richmond the lead, the Spiders pushed their advantage to 3-0 with a pair of runs in the fourth. After a Ryan Cook single, Flanagan crushed his first homer of the season over the fence in right field, giving UR a three-run cushion.

The lead ballooned to 4-0 in the fifth after a Beckwith RBI single, but UMass fought back, scoring five runs over the course of the next three innings to take a 5-4 lead in to the bottom of the eighth inning.

With a steady rain falling at Pitt Field, the Spiders mounted an offensive charge to seal a sweep of the Minutemen. After a three-base error to lead off the inning, Dacey plated Kraeger with a RBI single to right field. Dacey then moved to second base on a great sacrifice bunt from Cook, putting the go-ahead run in scoring position.

Already with two hits on the day, Brown came through in a big way, lining a single to center field, scoring Dacey from second and giving the Spiders the lead. Three batters later, with runners on first and second with two outs, Moheit hit a clutch, two-run double down the left-field line, making the Richmond lead 8-5 headed to the top of the ninth.

In the final frame, Martinson didn’t allow any Minutemen rally to begin, sealing the game and the three-game conference sweep.

The Richmond Spiders baseball team will be back in action this Tuesday when the team plays host to in-state rival William & Mary. First pitch at Pitt Field is slated for 3 p.m.